''One of the most brilliant and chilling thrillers of modern
times. Black House is a thrill-a-minute ghost train ride of a
novel, filled with astonishingly vivid characters. Reading it is
like holding on to a live electric wire. You may want to put it
down, but you find that you can''t.'' DAILY MAIL ''Fabulous! It''s the
best of the best. No argument! The ultimate in storytelling by two
masters of the craft.'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ''A new horror epic!
impossible to put down once you''ve started.
內容簡介:
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a
parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her
Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that
would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a
retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly
nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his
adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police
force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those
memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western
Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades
earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is
dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack''s buddy, the local chief of police,
begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this
merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and
malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes
Jack''s inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of
robins'' eggs and red feathers? It''s almost as if someone is trying
to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly
impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to
his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a
terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to
encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
"From the Hardcover edition."
關於作者:
Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of
them worldwide bestsellers. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his
wife, novelist Tabitha King. Recent bestsellers include The Green
Mile, Bag of Bones and Dreamcatcher. Peter Straub is the author of
fourteen novels which have been translated into more than twenty
languages. He lives in New York City. Recent bestsellers include
Koko, The Throat and Mr X.